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Перевод: blackbird
[существительное] дрозд черный [зоол.]
Тезаурус:
- The alarm call of the blackbird or the chattering hiss of the squirrel when a cat walks into my garden tell all and sundry that danger stalks near at hand.
- One day I found a dead blackbird, already in an advanced state of decay, in the road outside my house.
- It was a warm golden evening and a blackbird was singing somewhere near by.
- Last spring there'd been a blackbird's nest in the tree by the goal-post in the school playing-fields.
- Charles was aware of bird song, chiff-chaff, blackbird, and a crooning wood pigeon.
- The blackbird was just starting up - I always like hearing him.
- A solitary blackbird tried his voice.
- Or perhaps no one can understand anyone: each blackbird believes that he has put into his whistle a meaning fundamental for him, but only he understands it; the other gives him a reply that had no connection with what he said; it is a dialogue between the deaf, a conversation without head or tail.
- The dippers are browny-black in colour with striking, snowy white breasts; they're about the size of a well-fed blackbird, but far more enjoyable to watch.
- To my amazement, on locating the source of the sound I discovered not the cat but a hedgehog in the process of killing and devouring a blackbird.
- The local radio had reported that someone had heard a skylark singing, and that in Lerwick a blackbird was already on its first clutch of catfood.
- When down came a blackbird and pecked off her ears
- In the Diary included in The Woodland Life Edward notes under 7 January 1896: "Year opens mild, with the happy songs of blackbird and thrush thick in the woods; green shoots rising everywhere; all life is quick and glad; the fallow deer idle in the tempered sun under the oaks at Richmond, or sip the water through budding buttercups and weeds.
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